In both of the trials, the citizens and other members of jury believe that the defendant is guilty based solely on the defendants’ race; however, Atticus and Davis both disagree with the popular opinion and are more than willing to prove and support their own opinion. In 12 Angry Men , Juror 3 loudly proclaims that the boy is guilty and that all ghetto youths are criminals, while Juror 7 wants the jury to reach a decision quickly because he wishes to attend a baseball game that evening. Juror 1 conducts a preliminary ballot and eleven jurors vote for conviction without hesitation. When Davis, or Juror 8, is the only one to disagree and cast the only dissenting vote, Juror 10 gruffly declares that Davis is a weak-willed "bleeding heart". While Juror 2, a shy and stammering bank clerk, appears to be maintaining his guilty verdict because he feels intimidated by the more outspoken jurors, Davis proudly stands his ground refusing to conform to the others’ opinions.…
This is an important point” (241). His quiet, yet well-rounded personality generates sympathy and admiration among readers; thus, creating pathos. Juror 11’s history proves beneficial to the case, for he understands racial prejudice as much as the boy on trial does; thus, contributing to the overal ethos and logos, as well. For these reasons, readers congratulate Reginald Rose for his syntactical expertise and ability to reveal ethos, pathos, and logos with mere grammatical configurations. Twelve Angry Men is a simple play, yet its many components make it beneficial to education and memorable.…
In Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, Juror 3’s unwillingness and bias towards young people slows the jury from finding justice for the boy. Juror 3 had gotten into a fight with his son and has not talked to him since then. Therefore, the theme of the story is that pain from previous relationships leads to anger and prejudice towards new things and people. Juror 3 is angry towards kids because of his past experiences with his son.…
Mariela Zuniga At the end of the play, the reader does not find out whether the defendant is guilty or innocent. Discuss with reasons whether this is a strength or weakness in the story line. “Twelve Angry Men” is a play that takes place in 1957. This play focuses on deciding whether the defendant, the boy, is innocent or guilty of the crime of stabbing his father to death.…
Juxtaposing, Juror 3 shows courage in the play 12 Angry Men when one by one the other jurors are swayed to vote innocent. He stands by his verdict and strongly defends himself. Even though he was unconsciously judges the defendant based on prior experiences with children, he still stands firm in his decision that the boy…
NAME: Swathesh Shetty DATE: 12/10/2015 Leadership for Global Citizenship Questionnaire for the movie “12 Angry Men” 1. In one or two sentences, answer the following: a) What is the purpose of the 12 person jury? The purpose of the 12 person jury is to unanimously decide whether the accused is guilty or not guilty of the offence for killing his father based on the data and evidence gathered during the trail in the court.…
According to the B A 321 textbook, facilitation is the set of activities carried out before, during, and after meetings to help a group achieve its own outcomes. A facilitator is someone who performs these activities, helping the team by monitoring and improving its internal process. Twelve Angry Men, a movie about an open-and-shut murder trial in which one juror stands alone in his beliefs, made use of facilitation. When the twelve jurors were sent to deliberate a unanimous verdict, the case was not as clear-cut as they once thought. The jurors were made up of twelve men of diverse backgrounds.…
Juror eight appealed to the jury’s values. He told a story about the innocent boy (innocent when he was young) being harmed as he was growing up. The boy was beaten by his dad when he was young. Juror eight did a tremendous job of appealing to the emotions of the others; as his approach changes the minds of the jurors. For example, Juror number nine says “this gentleman has been standing alone against us, he doesn’t say the boy isn’t guilty, he just isn’t sure” (12 angry men 1957).…
The jury in 12 angry men is quite diverse. Evidence of this diversity can be derived from the individual backgrounds of the jurors. An example is juror 5 who grew up amongst knife fights, juror 5 who grew up in the slums an juror seven ho has an affinity for baseball. This diversity helped them function as an effective team because they were able to get different points of view. An example is juror 5 explaining the dynamics of using a switch blade.…
It is uncommon to observe somebody who likes to be compelled to be some place or accomplish something they don 't have a longing to do. In, 12 Angry Men, we are given only that. Twelve men, of every single different backgrounds and experiences are told they must spend their own valuable time to judge a man on the premise of evidence that was presented to them. Gladding would call this kind of group an errand/work aggregate. This sort of group meets up to finish amass undertaking objectives.…
What if you were on trial for first degree murder? In the movie 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose, a young eighteen year old male was on trial for supposedly murdering his own father. The twelve men on the jury were faced with different opinions and facts that questioned their morals and values in life. I feel as if this movie did have “worth” in my life. I think the movie had worth because no one should ever be stereotyped, judged, and accused based on what other people say.…
The 1957 movie version of 12 angry men, brings twelve people together with different personalities and experiences to discuss the fate of a young boy that allegedly killed his father. At the very beginning many agree that the boy is guilty except for one man. Juror #8 votes not guilty and pushes to have the evidence talked through. Slowly after reviewing all the evidence carefully the eleven to one vote switched from eleven thinking guilty to eleven thinking not guilty. Each juror brought different experiences and personalities to the jury room.…
The formation of the group is more in task orientation which all twelve jurors have common goal to be achieved. In the movie, the jurors are choice based on difference background and experience and the reason for the teams form is to fulfil his civic duty and social responsibility. The jurors have no relationships between each and other and they will not retain any relationship after the trial. It clearly show the negotiation process is a one off with served the short term purpose. The decision style is more analytical which…
Week 2 Application Assignment: Group Dynamics and Group Stages In 1965, Bruce Tuckman developed one of the most influential models of “the developmental stages in a small group” (Bonebright, 2010, p. 111). It is a four stage model in which each stage needed to be completed in order to reach optimum group functioning. These stages were dubbed “forming”, “storming”, “norming”, “performing”. Later in 1977, he and Mary Ann Conover Jensen added “adjourning” as a fifth stage in his model (Bonebright, 2010).…
A juror states that "Kids that live in the slums are all criminals" (12 Angry Men, 1957). Another example of groupthink during the movie is when the jury talk about how the boy's father beat him and would smack him around. The jury say "This boy has been hit so many times that violence is a sort of affair to him" and also one of the jurors says "I would beat him up too if he was my kid" (12 Angry Men, 1975). Throughout the movie groupthink decreased but that was after several hours of deliberation which is when the theory of dialogue comes in to…